Terms of Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

The information on this site is the property of the Québec
government, which holds exclusive intellectual property rights to it. Unless
otherwise indicated, these rights apply to all documents, data, compilations and
other works produced, published or disseminated by the government, regardless of
whether the documents are official or administrative texts (statutes and
regulations, annual reports, brochures, etc.) and regardless of whether they are
produced by government employees, a government department, a public body or a
third party having transferred its rights to the government or granted it a user
licence. These rights apply to copyright, trademarks and patents, among other
things.

For example, compilations of data and information on government
sites are works protected by copyright, just as multimedia, literary, musical
and artistic works are.

Unless otherwise indicated and barring exceptions provided for
in the relevant statutes, third party use of objects covered by such rights is
permitted provided authorization, permission or a licence or grant of interest
is obtained from the rights holder. This is the case, for example, with
reproduction, storage or memorization for a purpose other than those strictly
permitted.

Anyone wishing to reproduce, download, store, translate, adapt,
publish or present in public sounds, texts or images, in any form or by any
means whatsoever, or to communicate by telecommunication any document,
information or other content on this site must obtain prior authorization from
the Québec government. Such authorization may be obtained by submitting a
request to the central clearing house of the
Service de la gestion des droits
d’auteur of Les Publications du Québec.

In addition, when using these works, broadly defined, removing
the name of the rights owner or modifying the contents by addition, deletion or
otherwise constitutes infringement of moral rights.

Integrity of the information

The Québec government guarantees the integrity of the
information at the precise moment when it appears on the site, not subsequently.
It guarantees no document, information or other content once it has been altered
or modified in any way whatsoever, after downloading or not. Moreover, in the
event of a discrepancy between the official text and the contents of the site,
the official text takes precedence.